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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Library Reincarnated
Image via Wikipedia How did the Alexandria Library completely disappear? How did the destruction of the great library impact the ancient world? Watch this video from National Geographic and learn a bit about the past and how the old library … Continue reading
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Oregon Natural Resources Digital Library
Image by pete4ducks via Flickr Oregon Explorer: Natural Resources Digital Library http://oregonexplorer.info/ If you have an interest in natural resource policy and management, you’ll want to spend some quality time on the Oregon Explorer’s Natural Resource Digital Library website. The … Continue reading
Secrets of the NYPL
Image via Wikipedia How often does the New York Public Library‘s telephone reference service receive a request? What are the names of the lions that guard the NYPL and what’s their story? What kinds of things can you find in … Continue reading
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About ERIC
Image by Christopher S. Penn via Flickr Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and Institute of Education Sciences, is a digital library of education research and information on thousands of educational topics, from 1966 … Continue reading
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Xeno-Canto
Image by Martin_Heigan via Flickr Xeno-Canto: Bird Sounds From the Americas [Real Player] http://www.xeno-canto.org/ Xeno-Canto is a fabulous website that exemplifies how the Internet can bring together people from around the world who have a common interest. This website offers … Continue reading
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Design USA
Image via Wikipedia Design USA: Contemporary Innovation http://exhibitions.cooperhewitt.org/Design-USA/ The DesignUSA exhibition from the Smithsonian‘s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum celebrates ten years of the Museum’s National Design Awards program. The National Design Awards program was founded in order to “celebrate contemporary … Continue reading
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H1N1 Web Resource
Image via Wikipedia Ebrary has created a publicly available research center featuring a highly interactive, searchable database of documents pertaining to the H1N1 influenza pandemic. This resource is available at http://h1n1.ebrary.com and contains reports, papers, newsletters, posters, and other important … Continue reading
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Our Largest Libraries
Image by Jordon via Flickr Go to ALA Library Fact Sheet 22 to view information about the 100 largest libraries in the U.S. U of O is #99.
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Legal Docs On Google Scholar
If you go to Google Scholar you will notice that it is now sporting a new button below the search box titled “Legal opinions and journals”. Google has made full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate … Continue reading
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A New Addition
New database: Political Science Complete Contains full text for over 400 journals, and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 800 journals, (including top-ranked scholarly journals), many of which are unique to the product, such as British Politics, Ethnopolitics and … Continue reading
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